Naïve super / Erlend Loe ; translated from the Norwegian by Tor Ketil Solberg.
Publisher:
Canongate Books,
Copyright Date:
2005
Description:
196 pages ; 18 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2001.
Summary:
Troubled by an inability to find any meaning in his life, the 25-year-old narrator of Naive. Super quits university in an attempt to discover a raison d'etre. He recounts a series of anecdotes, which culminate in a trip to stay with his brother in New York. He writes lists. He becomes obsessed by time and whether it actually matters. He befriends a small boy who lives next door. He yearns to get to the bottom of life and how best to live it.
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